documentation issue...

[alabamatoy]

I just did a new install of 18.04LTS Ubuntu and proceeded to use the Zoneminder documentation to install ZM, and there is a minor issue. The changes that are suggested for mysql come *before* the install of ZM, so in bare Ubuntu 18.04, there is no mysql, so none of those commands work. On this page https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/1. ... untu-16-04 step 3 should be AFTER step 4.

[bbunge]

Those have always been behind (and are difficult to edit)

If you notice they are also for 16.04
and contain:
It is recommended that you use an Ubuntu Server install and select the LAMP option during install to install Apache, MySQL and PHP. If you failed to do this you can achieve the same result by running:

See for up to date install:

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv ... e_easy_way

Also recommend Mariadb vs. MySQL...